Anyone can experience poverty.  Very often, circumstances and forces well beyond one’s control determine whether one suffers in poverty or is free of its grip. 

On this portion of our site we provide short stories of those who have experienced poverty at some point in their lives, or who have perhaps known no other reality.  We intend that by posting these stories we may help overcome negative stereotypes and – all too often – misinformed ideas and biased attitudes about poverty and the poor.   

If you have a “first voice” story of experiencing poverty and would like to share it, please contact our office.  We welcome story submissions, up to 1,500 words, for consideration for publication.

This page has the following sub pages.

• A Cascade of Misfortune (by John Courtneidge)
• Teenage Pregnancy, Abusive Relationships and the Slippery Slope of Poverty (by Debbie D. Frost)
• Help Me (by Brian Sankarsingh)
• Abandoned by his government, rescued by his family: a story of schizophrenia and poverty
• Consumed: Boundaries of Birth and Circumstance (by Patricia Ashie)
• Monopoly (by Kevin Norlin)
• The Peril of Addiction (by Sean Naish)